Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
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If we communicated with something like music, we would never be misunderstood, because there is nothing in music to understand.
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There are only some many times you can utter “It does not hurt” before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.
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Let love write on you for awhile.
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I never confused what I had with what I was.
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Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what’s reasonable also allows in other things.
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I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories.
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I do think ordinariness is, in a way, the enemy, but not ordinariness as the opposite of flamboyance.
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I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.
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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they’re nothing.” “So what’s something?” “Being reliable is something. Being good.
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I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.
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My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.
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Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?
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And she would say, “Today you believe in God?” And he would say, “Today I believe in love”.
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I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember,
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She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.
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Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.
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Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do, I am not a hero, it is true, But I am not a bad person, either.
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Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.
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Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don’t mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
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The animals are those things that God likes but doesn’t love.
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I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.
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I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: “Do you like me?
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don’t cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears – you know, it’s a horrible thing.
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